Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gathered in the Toledo (O.) Blade; the Duluth Herald he bought in 1918. Last year, he negotiated a shrewd deal in Pittsburgh, where he bought both the morning Post and the evening Sun, then traded the Sun to Publisher William Randolph Hearst for the morning Gazette-Times, then consolidated the two morning papers into the enormously profitable Post-Gazette. With the Standard-Union, Publisher Block owns five daily newspapers...
Justice could not avenge them, for want of evidence. But shrewd fellow peasants blamed the poisoning, last week, upon surviving Widower Niklos and surviving Widow Graf, whom the peasants further suspected of being adulterers...
...Belgians (1835-1909), detested uncle and immediate predecessor of beloved King Albert I. Uncle Leopold went wickedly a-travel-ing when he was Crown Prince, to India, to China, to Japan and home around Africa, with a momentous visit to Mother Congo. Memories of Congoland germinated in the shrewd brain of Uncle Leopold and flowered when he became King. The master move of his long and wily reign was to call the International Conference of 1876 at Brussels, where he piously proposed to the Great Powers a program for "civilizing" the Congo and suppressing slavery there. The expense of these...
...learned banking in a rough and ready school. The cashier of a small-town Texas bank in 1905 had to keep one eye on the cash, and the other on the door. It took a shrewd judge of men to handle the lanky Texans who ambled into the Citizens National Bank of Ballinger. And when this bank merged with its rival, the First National, and Melvin Traylor became president, he needed as much good banking sense to manage a capital of $200,000 as he needs today to direct a bank with resources of over...
...intending to practice law and steer clear of politics, but "he could no more keep out of politics than the Old Soak could pass the swinging door." Elected to Congress at the age of 30, he was immediately conspicuous for his violent eloquence. Six years later (1896) he, a shrewd politician, achieved the Democratic nomination after the famous "Cross-of-Gold" speech in which he canonized free silver...